Summary: actor who played the young incarnation of the excitable officer Pavel Chekov on the Starship Enterprise in the rebooted Star Trek
movie series, who was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia in
what was then the Soviet Union to figure skaters Irina Korina and
Viktor Yelchin who were superstars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet (the
family fled to live in Los Angeles six months later), and who also made
memorable appearances on TV shows like ER, The Practice, and Curb Your Enthusiasm as a child actor.